Gentle Reader,Many apologies for the silence here at the L&To'AE .... no, it's not because of any disaster (thank goodness!) - it's just that it is the time of year for me that there are a lot of things that either have to be done before winter sets in or I want to get done before winter sets in. On days when it is sunny I've been digging like mad, breaking ground for an new flower bed. And on days when it is raining (or snowing) I'm winding up a couple of inside house projects. So the dolls have been entertaining themselves for a while.

Perhaps because one of us is currently moving into a new home, I caught the new home bug and decided that Lily Robgoblin needed to get her furniture out of storage and into a home. So soon now she is going to have a Calico Critters house and I hope you'll enjoy seeing her move in even if she isn't a ten incher! Here is a picture from a while back of her snoozing in her CC bunk bed.

Lily is a Fairyland Realpuki

I've also been thinking about a "project" to recreate some of the characters from a wonderful book I recently discovered. Here is a link to a website that shows the creation of the illustrations in "Sounds Spooky" by Christopher Cheng, with art by Sarah Davis http://www.behance.net/SarahDavis/frame/2251488

I'm thinking of using one of my white skin BJDs for the little ghost girl - I've ordered pale eyes and a white wig and can't wait for them to arrive.So bear with my silence and keep watching and soon I hope to have several things to share! R.